Chapter 495 The first year-style seven-jin field gun
After settling in Liuzhou Prefecture, the busiest organization must be the Ministry of Industry!
Although other departments are also busy, for example, the newly established Xingquan Prefecture Patrol Bureau not only needs to establish a complete security organization, but also its subordinate Xingquan Prefecture City Management Office must take on the task of rectifying the city's appearance.
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The army captured Liuzhou City on the seventh day of the first month of the second year of Xuanping. On the next day, various institutions were set up in Liuzhou City. These people worked continuously for more than half a month and finally gave a preliminary overview of the city appearance of Liuzhou Prefecture.
Organized.
However, compared to the Ministry of Industry, the workload of these institutions is still too small!
After the army captured Liuzhou, officials from the Ministry of Industry, many craftsmen dispatched in the early stages, and many newly recruited workers had captured the coolies and entered Liuzhou City immediately, and then began to directly requisition a large number of houses as workshops.
Although the Ministry of Industry was fully prepared, before the city of Liuzhou was conquered, it had already planned in advance the responsible persons for various workshops, various steel workshops, musket workshops, wood workshops, artillery workshops, gunpowder workshops, bow and arrow workshops, sword workshops, etc.
People and a few core backbones have already been put in place in advance.
However, after entering Liuzhou City and starting the specific work, there were still many difficulties!
Although all kinds of workshops in the Tang Dynasty are basically hand-made these days, and there is basically no professional or large-scale equipment, but it is a new arrival, and there are no various rules and supply systems. They need to be gradually improved, so this is really
It is actually quite difficult to start a business.
For example, for workshops that make guns, they need steel workshops and wood workshops to cooperate. Otherwise, they can't create workshops out of thin air.
Once the wood and steel workshops cannot supply semi-finished products, they will have nothing to do.
As for wood workshops and steel workshops, they also need various raw materials, such as wood. To make musket handguards and gun butts, not just any wood can be used. They need fine wood with fine texture and good toughness, such as
Say walnut, catalpa, ironwood, cork, ash, etc.
Another example is steel. Liuzhou is not a place that produces iron. Although several small iron mines have been discovered, the output of these iron mines is no different. Because mining is difficult and the quality is poor, it is still
For the industrial system of the Tang Dynasty, which was a manual operation, it was basically difficult to utilize.
On the contrary, several small iron mines that are suitable for mining have been discovered in Guilin, but the output is very small.
Nowadays, in various regions within the territory of the Tang Dynasty, many prefectures and counties actually have iron mines, but they basically have the characteristics of small reserves, smaller output, and poor quality. They can barely supply part of the iron to the Tang Dynasty, but only
It can only satisfy a small part, but the bulk still needs to continue to be imported. Of course, the Tang Dynasty is also collecting iron from the people, seizing scrap weapons from the Ming army and recasting them to make weapons, agricultural tools, etc.
The output of the design workshops in Liuzhou is huge, and this requires a sufficient supply of raw materials!
However, the supply channels for raw materials are still being established and cannot be supplied in large quantities for a while!
At the same time, a large number of craftsmen and skilled workers required by Liuzhou workshops are still on their way to Liuzhou from Xingquan Prefecture, so it will take some time for large-scale production!
At present, the workshops in Liuzhou City are only in the stage of small-scale debugging and production. It will take at least a month to achieve large-scale mass production or even reach the previous output in Xingquan Prefecture!
However, even the raw materials and personnel have not yet arrived. However, in order to meet the army's ordnance needs, the Ministry of Industry's workshop in Liuzhou is actually already in the stage of small-scale production, but the output is not high!
Because of the importance of the workshops under the Ministry of Industry, on the third day after arriving in Liuzhou, Li Xuan led civil and military officials to inspect the workshops under the Ministry of Industry in a high-profile manner, especially the most important musket and artillery workshops!
When inspecting the workshop, Li Xuan even fired a few shots himself in order to show his importance to the ordnance workshop. Of course, in order to ensure safety, the muskets used by Li Xuan were carefully selected and rigorously tested.
Make sure it doesn't explode.
The style of this musket is also different from the previous one. Although it is still a 14mm matchlock gun, the details have been conveniently adjusted and the accuracy and convenience have been slightly improved compared to the previous muskets. Li Xuan still believes in this.
Quite satisfied.
Before the flintlock gun was developed, in his opinion, the matchlock gun in his hand was basically at the first-class level of matchlock guns, and it was not much different from matchlock guns in Western countries.
Even because of the use of paper shell fixed ammunition, sleeve bayonets, front sights, and rulers, the actual development of matchlock guns in the Tang Dynasty has surpassed that of Western countries.
If the firing mechanism can be replaced by a trigger, to put it bluntly, this kind of musket can be used with Mini rifles or even breech-loading rifles with metal fixed bullets!
In the artillery workshop, Li Xuan also inspected the 150-pound camp cannon produced. Of course, the artillery was too dangerous, so he would not test-fire it himself.
After inspecting the workshops, Li Xuan said that all types of equipment for the follow-up troops, including muskets and artillery in the later period, must strictly follow unified standards. The guns and artillery produced by each workshop must be of the same specifications and cannot be produced indiscriminately.
To this end, Li Xuan also specially set detailed models and parameter standards for existing muskets and artillery. The existing muskets are called Xuanping 2-year-old rifles, which use a 14mm caliber, a matchlock firing mechanism, and a firing paper
The shell-loaded ammunition adopts a sleeve-type bayonet, ruler, and front sight.
The 150-pound camp cannon was also shaped into the Yuan Nian-style two-pound camp cannon.
The 500-jin artillery was designated as the first year type two-pound field cannon, and the 800-jin artillery was designated as the 2-year-old five-pound field cannon.
The difference between camp artillery and field artillery is based on combat use. Artillery that can directly accompany infantry in combat is typed as camp artillery, while artillery that implements artillery suppression is typed as field artillery.
This distinction is not based on weight, type of shells fired, caliber, or barrel length, but only on combat use!
The terms "two kilograms" and "five kilograms" replace the previous practice of distinguishing by the weight of artillery, and instead use the weight of the fired shells. However, the weight is not strictly followed, it is just an integer.
For example, the original eight-hundred-jin artillery actually fired less than five-jin solid shells, but it was also called five-jin.
The names of these kilograms are similar to the Western use of pounds to refer to the size and model of artillery at this time, and the weight of the shells fired by the artillery of the Tang Dynasty and the artillery of the West are actually about the same. Although there is a difference, it can basically be seen
They are things of the same level. For example, a two-pound cannon can basically correspond to a Western three-pound cannon, a five-pound cannon can correspond to a six-pound cannon, and a seven-pound cannon can correspond to a nine-pound cannon.
As for the 1,300-pound artillery, the solid shells it fires weigh about seven pounds, which is roughly the same power as the Western nine-pound artillery. Therefore, this artillery is also called the 2-year-old seven-pound field gun.
These names and years are used to distinguish the specific models of the same type of artillery, the weight of the shells is used to distinguish the power of the artillery, and the camp artillery and field artillery are used to distinguish the uses.
It is more accurate to distinguish between 150-jin, 500-jin, 800-jin, and 1,300-jin artillery in the past.
Of course, there are basically only one generation of artillery of each type in the Tang Dynasty, so the previous years can be omitted and simply referred to as two-pound camp cannon, two-jin field cannon, five-jin field cannon, and seven-jin field cannon.
Li Xuan determined the model and parameters in order to avoid the guns produced by various workshops having different calibers, making them incompatible.
When Li Xuan was inspecting Liuzhou City and then rectifying the situation of various institutions in Liuzhou City, the military operations of the Tang Dynasty King's Division did not stop.
However, while the military operations continued, Li Xuan first made a new round of adjustments to the combat directions of the various divisions of the Tang Dynasty King's Division and the chief officers of each unit!
The first is the partial division that marches east to Guilin. The two battalions of this division belong to the 1st Infantry Brigade, 2nd Infantry Regiment and 3rd Guards Brigade respectively. However, because they are far away in Guilin, it is actually difficult to communicate with the 1st Infantry Brigade.
brigade and the 3rd Garrison Brigade to maintain close contact.
Li Xuan simply organized this part of the troops separately and established a temporary first regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Xu Ke, deputy commander of the second infantry regiment, served as the regiment commander. The original second reserve battalion and thirteenth garrison battalion of the second infantry regiment were
, the Guilin Independent Garrison Battalion was included in it, and was successively given the designations of the Temporary First Battalion, the Temporary Second Battalion, and the Temporary Third Battalion.
The 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 3rd Garrison Brigade reorganized its reserve battalion and the 13th Garrison Battalion.
At the same time, the 1st reserve battalion and the 4th garrison battalion of the 4th Infantry Regiment, which moved south from central Guizhou to Qingyuan Prefecture in Guangxi, were also reorganized into the temporary 2nd Regiment, and each unit was renamed as the temporary 4th and 5th Battalions. In addition, they were left with
A temporary sixth battalion was established.
The establishment of the temporary regiment was specially established by Li Xuan to have a secondary front, and it was only a temporary establishment. Moreover, there were no strict regulations on whether these troops should be regular troops or garrison troops, but there is no doubt that these troops will be
Mainly using cold weapons.
In addition, since these units are prefixed with the temporary organization, it means that they will be disbanded, split, and merged at any time. It is a temporary organization and will not exist for a long time.
For example, after Guilin and even other places in northeastern Guangxi are captured, the temporary First Infantry Regiment will definitely be disbanded, and these troops will be reorganized into the regular army or garrison in the future.
Of course, the establishment of a temporary infantry regiment is just to reorganize the existing troops, especially the partial divisions on the secondary front, and to clarify the reporting relationship.
Compared with the establishment of temporary regiments, the biggest change is the adjustment of the main force!